Posted on August 31st, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush will not attend the Republican convention and will instead address the assembly via satellite so he can oversee the federal response to Hurricane Gustav, the White House said on Sunday.
“The president and vice president decided not to travel to Minnesota due to the hurricane,” White House spokeswoman Dana [...]
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Posted on August 31st, 2008 by Walter Brasch
by Rosemary and Walter Brasch
During the time that Bill Clinton was rocking the Democratic convention, ABC, CBS, and Fox were showing re-runs, NBC was showing the second hour of “America’s Got Talent,” and the CW was showing the second season finale of “Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious.”
Less than two decades ago, the networks gave the conventions [...]
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Posted on August 31st, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I got a message from Dem Daily blogger Donnie McDaniel earlier today that he was getting ready to evacuate his place in Houma, Louisiana ahead of Hurricane Gustav, which is currently packing one hell of a whallop. Donnie first came to The Dem Daily a few days after Katrina. Stay safe Donnie…
Democratic nominee, Barack Obama is [...]
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Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Well… If John McCain was angling for the women’s vote with his choice of Sarah Palin as his VP, he may not get it after all. The first two national polls out since McCain’s pick was announced show “contrary to what the GOP probably hoped, she scored less well with women than men.”
Here’s a finding [...]
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Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
Quote of the Day
“As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration.”
– Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), quoted just [...]
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Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
[...] State Senate President Lyda Green said she thought it was a joke when someone called her at 6 a.m. to give her the news.
“She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?” said Green, a Republican from Palin’s hometown of Wasilla. “Look at what she’s done to [...]
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Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
The Rude One, at The Rude Pundit writes posts that are, by definition, street language and generally rude to the Right. He always backs up his rants with facts and says them in ways that bring home the crisis America faces in ways I can only envy. It’s like having Bill Maher moderate a debate. [...]
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Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Must read of the day: McCain’s Palin pick is the epitome of tokenism. Joe Conason asks:
Suddenly all anyone needs to qualify as a potential commander in chief is to be a religious ideologue with female gender characteristics?
Read it all here. Ironically, as Conason points out, “Even Rush Limbaugh is a feminazi now (at least until [...]
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Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
John McCain’s strange VP pick, Sarah Palin may have dominated the news on Friday, but Barack Obama’s speech Thursday night accepting the Democratic nomination for president, set a record for political “convention viewership that exceeded even the expectations of his aides.”
The historic speech by the first African-American presidential nominee of a major political party reached [...]
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Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
Ok. Let’s get down to it. A former beauty queen, with no substantive political experience, who is anti-choice and a creationist , and therefore anti-science, is now supposed to become the Vice President. She would be just one heatbeat away from the Presidency. Doddering around the Oval Office will be her elderly President. One heartbeat [...]
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Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
If you are confused by the choice of a person who has very little political experience and no national experience, join the crowd. If you said, “Sarah who? Who the hell is she?” Join the crowd. Let’s flesh out a little bit of history of Sarah Palin.
A former beauty queen ( no kidding), she is [...]
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Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Apparently some die-hard Clinton supporters see Palin as an option. Make no mistake about it, Palin is no Hillary Clinton on women’s issues. Here’s the statement from Ellen R. Malcolm, President of EMILY’s List on Senator McCain choosing Governor Palin (emphasis mine):
“How ironic that, on his 72nd birthday, McCain has raised the question of whether [...]
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